NELSON TURNS ON ITS BEST SUNSHINE.
NELSON, July 24. The welcome given Viscount Montgomery by the people of Nelson this afternoon was the most enthusiastic ever accorded a distinguished visitor to the citv. In brilliant sunshine the big gest crowd in Nelson 's history assembled at the churcli steps for the iivic reception. Viscount Montgomery arrived by plane from Westport and after the eeremonv left by7 air for Blenheim for the third official funetion of the day. When "Montv" stepped frohi tlie plane on arrival he had an informal chat with the group of bystanders, the subjects discussed being Nelson 's sunshine records and its apples. He remarlced on his fondness for apples and two children present went home and re turned to the aerodrome with an apple each which they presented to the Field Marshal before his departure. His parting words were: ' ' Thanks for the apples "
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19470725.2.49
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 6
Word Count
147NELSON TURNS ON ITS BEST SUNSHINE. Chronicle (Levin), 25 July 1947, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in